Knowledge: Smart parenting and allowing back-talk

1. In many middle-class families, children have one, two, sometimes three adults at their beck and call. This is a social experiment on a grand scale, and a growing number of adults fear that it isn’t working out so well: according to one poll, commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents think that their children are spoiled.Spoiled Rotten (The New Yorker)

2. Where you try to explain what happened and then, rather than listening
to you, the response you get is “that’ll be three more spanks, and for
every additional word you say, I’ll add another spank.” That feeling
like you’re being smothered. The rage rising inside, threatening to
overwhelm you until you begin to feel nauseous. The moment when you
realize that what hurts is not so much that they don’t understand as
that they don’t want to understand. That you matter that little.Things are different here: “Back Talk” and Healing (Love, Joy, Feminism)

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